Pomona man shot, killed outside his home

POMONA - Conrad Jimenez looked down at the all-too familiar grouping of religious candles and stuffed animals left on a sidewalk Sunday afternoon in remembrance of a young man lost to violence.

"It's senseless for someone so young to die this way," Jimenez said, not really looking at any of the articles left behind, but just kind of staring through them.

He's seen these memorials before but never thought that so close to Christmas he would be standing over a memorial created for his own son, Jose Alfredo Jimenez.

"He didn't deserve this," he managed to say in a whisper.

Jose Jimenez, 18, was shot and killed just after 2 a.m. Sunday near his Pomona home. No arrests have been made.

Jaime Acosta, a friend of the slain man, walked over from his home to comfort the grieving father.

"He was a really good guy with a good heart," Acosta said of the 18-year-old. "He was always willing to help anybody out. He just had that kind of heart."

Pomona police received several calls shortly after 2 a.m. reporting several shots had been fired in the 1100 block of Park Avenue, according to a police news release.

Officers found a man, later identified as Jose Jimenez, lying on the ground with at least one gunshot wound to his upper torso, police said.

Neighbors said the young man was walking with a group of friends on Park Avenue toward his home when someone began shooting at the group, hitting him and killing him. They mentioned the attacker may have asked the group of young men what gang they were from.